Replace all Windows 11 folder icon with Windows 10 Folder icons


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rinku2012

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Hello,

I have recently installed WIndows 11 and i personally liking the folder icons. can someone help me whether there is any script where ic an replace all folder icons at once form windows 10 to windows 11 ?
I want to have all the icons for folders, zip folders etc like windows 10 icons

Can some one help me
 

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With the attached batch script .zip archive, you can change Windows 10 and Windows 11 folder icon. Place the folder icon in the extracted zip archive folder and name it Blue Folder.ico and execute the batch script.
 

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FreeBooter said:
With the attached batch script .zip archive, you can change Windows 10 and Windows 11 folder icon. Place the folder icon in the extracted zip archive folder and name it Blue Folder.ico and execute the batch script.
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Hello,

its only replacing the folders to blue color. i want folders to be replaced across entire windows. can this be done ?
 

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How to use Windows 10 Icons in Windows 11

This hack might stop working, if Windows Update decides to replace imageresdll.mun in a future update. Then you have to repeat the steps after every month's update.

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rinku2012 said:
Hello,

its only replacing the folders to blue color. i want folders to be replaced across entire windows. can this be done ?
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You will need to replace the blue color folder icon with folder icon you want but make sure to name the folder icon as Blue Folder.
 

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FreeBooter said:
You will need to replace the blue color folder icon with folder icon you want but make sure to name the folder icon as Blue Folder.
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my goal is to make all folders on windows 11 same like windows 10. will your bat file works ?
when i execute the file, i only see that folders are getting into blue color. and desktop folder icons are same
 

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It will only change system folder color so i think this batch script no what you want.
 

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
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Samsung SyncMaster U28E590
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3840 x 2160
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rinku2012 said:
this hack is not working. i tried but not working
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Follow the instructions.
As Administrator, delete the old imageresdll.mun. Copy over the downloaded W10 version. Log out.
 

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garlin said:
Follow the instructions.
As Administrator, delete the old imageresdll.mun. Copy over the downloaded W10 version. Log out.
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i did followed the instructions. i run the command prompt as administrator rights, deleted the old imageresdll.mun file and then move the new windows 10 files and restarted the machine. I see same windows 11 icons
 

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Clear your icon cache. Delete the iconcache_ files in AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer. You may have to restart exlorer after that.
 

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MaRio said:
Clear your icon cache. Delete the iconcache_ files in AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer. You may have to restart exlorer after that.
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Thanks a lot. it worked
 

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delete icon cache first then run del C:\Windows\SystemResources\imageres.dll.mun and then download the mun from How to use Windows 10 Icons in Windows 11 this and then open system resources and paste the new mun in and then restart pc
 

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MaRio said:
Clear your icon cache. Delete the iconcache_ files in AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer. You may have to restart exlorer after that.
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I also thought that the hack described on Github was not going to work. Glad I read this comment. After clearing iconcache_ files it worked for me. Thanks.
 

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Did both methods. First the bash script and then replacing the imageresdll.mun. Was able to get it to work by manually deleting imageresdll.mun. file(then moving the windows 10 file to its original location) and the iconcache in explorer both through command prompt(admin). Lastly, had to go back and run the bash script and choose the 2 option to change it back to "default" as the blue folder overrided the new folder icon aka the new default.

Realistically just doing the 2nd method using the command prompt to delete those files would've done the job. Thanks all.
 

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garlin said:
Follow the instructions.
As Administrator, delete the old imageresdll.mun. Copy over the downloaded W10 version. Log out.
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can i get a download to the windows 10 imageresdll.mun file please?
 

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Did you read my first reply? The linked article tells you where to download a copy.
 

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Hello, Mind if I bring this thread back to life?

I have done the steps and deleted the icon cache, the folders on my desktop didn't change but every other folder did. I'm ok with this I can simple redo the folders on my desktop
What I want now is a way to change the way the system displays the jpg within the folder. Windows 11 still displays the image of what is within in a landscape style.

I'm trying to fix the below. There should be a Sean Bean in that image, lol.
Image1.jpg
 

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Gambit74 said:
I have done the steps and deleted the icon cache, the folders on my desktop didn't change but every other folder did. I'm ok with this I can simple redo the folders on my desktop
What I want now is a way to change the way the system displays the jpg within the folder. Windows 11 still displays the image of what is within in a landscape style.
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W11's Explorer renders the folder thumbnail in landscape mode, and not portrait. If you try replacing it a much older W10 DLL, you'll probably end up with compatibility issues.

Folder thumbnails

I'm finding it hard to understand why Microsoft went with this design choice where folder thumbnails are obscured by the horizontal design of the folders. It makes folder navigation extremely difficult for people who have many image folders, like photographers and digital artists etc. Even...
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Microsoft gave the reigns to a bunch on millennial children who chose to reinvent the wheel. So far I'm looking at win11 and thinking "Why..." Deleting the toolbars...Why!?! It was a simple thing that some used and some didn't... It was already there, why remove it???
Like the folders, they have been in portrait mode since win95, why, why change them to landscape? MS, you need new management.
 

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